Event time:
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 12:00pm
Event description:
Yale Environmental History will host the final session of its fall workshop series to discuss works-in-progress.
“Central Asian Declensionism or New Frontiers for Colonization? Environmental Narratives in Turn-of-the-century Xinjiang”
Yuan Gao, (Yale Agrarian Studies and Case Western Reserve University)
Tuesday, Dec 3, 12-1:15 pm
HQ 134
Light lunch provided
Yuan Gao is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale and the incoming Assistant Professor of Chinese History at Case Western Reserve University. She is an environmental historian of northwestern China and Central Eurasia. She is currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled “Tigers and Locusts: Governance and Environmental Changes in Qing China’s Arid Land.”
This workshop is based on a pre-circulated paper— to get a copy of the paper and RSVP for lunch, please email environmentalhistory@yale.edu.
Admission:
Free